Stove for heating oil for setting wagon-tires



(No Model.)

R. SMITH 8v T. N. NICHOLSON.

STOVB POR HEATING OIL FOR SETTING WAGON TIRES.

Patented Sept. 4, 1888.

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UNTTED STATES PnTnNT Orrrcn.

ROBERT SMITH AND THOMAS N. NICHOLSON, OF EMBARRASS, XVISCONSIN.

STOVE FOR HEATlNG OIL FOR SETTING WAGONwTIRES.

.SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,923, dated September e, 1888.

Application filed March 14, 1858.

T0 @ZZ whom z5 may concern;

Be it known that we, ROBERT SMITH and Tnoiriis N. NICHOLSON, citizens of the United States, residing at Embarrass, in the county of Waupaca and State of Wisconsin, have in vented a new and useful Improvement in Stoves for Heating Oil for Setting Vagon-Tircs, of which the following is a spcciication.

Our invention relates to an improvement in apparatus for heating oil for setting wagontires; and it consists in the peculiar construe tion and combination of devices that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Figure l is a perspective view of a heating apparatus embodying our improvement. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of t-he same. Fig. 8 is a vertical transverse sectional view of the same. A represents a rectangular furnace or heater, which is made of iron or other suitable 1nate rial, and is supported on vertical legs B,which are secured to the corners thereof. The said heater has a door, O, at its front end for the admission of fuel, and is provided at a suitable distance below the door with a draftopening, D.

E represents a longitudinal plate, which is arranged in the heater at a suitable distance from the top thereof, and is provided at its rear end with an opening, E.

The top of the heater consists of a plate, G, having a pair ofrectangular longitudinal openings, H, which are arranged side by side and extend nearly the entire length of the heater. Said plate G is further provided near its rear end with an opening, I, with which the smoke escape pipe communicates.

K represent-s a pair ofpans or troughs, which are made of sheet metal, and are adapted to be inserted in the openings II and through the same, said troughs or pans having ilanges on their upper edges, which bear upon the plate G, and thereby suspend them from said plate.

Under the heater, extending transversely across t-he saine, is secured a cross-bar, M, the ends of which project beyond the sides ofthe heater.

N represents a pair of vertical standards, which are secured to the outerends ofthe cross` bar and are arranged at a suitable distance from the sides of the heater. Said standards are connected to the heater by means of braces O, and said standards are further provided in their upper ends with vertical slots P.

Serial No. 967,161. (No model.)

R represents a pair of extensions or arms, which bear against the inner sides of the upper portions of the standards, and are secured thereto by means of adjustingscren's S, which extend through the slots I? and engage the extensions, thus enabling the latter to be vertically adjusted on the standards, as will be readily understood. The upper ends of the extensions are provided with notches or recesses, in which a shaft, T, is supported. On the said shaft are arranged the wheels to be operated upon after the tires have been placed thereon and While the tires are still heated, the wheels being revoluble on the shaft and having theirloirer sides immersed in liuseed oil, with which the troughs or pans are filled. The fire in the heater heats the oil in said troughs or pans to the boiling point, and as the wheels are rotated on the shaft their rims or fellies are caused to pass through the boiling oii and become thoroughly saturated with the same, thereby expanding the rims or feliies and at the same time shrinking the tires on the wheels.

The plate E in the upper portion ot' the heater detiects the flames rearward and causes the same to pass under said plate and escape through the opening E and pipe I, serving thereby to heat the space above the plate and surrounding the oil-pans by radiation, the heated air confined in said space and in which the pans are immersed serving to thoroughly heat the oil in the pans without burning or igniting the same.

Having thus described our invention, We claim- The heater having the openings H in its top, the horizontal longitudinal plate E above the iirebox and at a suitable distance below the top, said plate having the opening E at the rear end, the escapepipe I, extending from the top ofthe heater at a point above the opening E', and the oil pans or troughs fitted in the opening II and depending in the space above the plate, substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT SMITH. THOMAS N. NICHOLSON.

Witnesses OTTO LADEWIG, Wir. VIERG'UTZ. 

